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A Nation Divided : Diversity, Inequality, and Community in American Society /
The United States will enter the twenty-first century with an increasingly diverse, unequal, and divided population. Longstanding tensions persist between ethnic groups, rich and poor, and immigrants and the native-born. New sources of strain involve sexual and gender minorities, those who possess a...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Ithaca :
Cornell University Press,
1999.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- pt. 1. Diversity and inequality. Durable inequality / Charles Tilly ; Two visions of the relationship between individual and society : the Bell curve versus social structure and personality / Melvin L. Kohn ; Two faces of diversity : recreating the stranger next door? / Henry A. Walker ; Gender, sexuality, and inequality : when many become one, who is the one and what happens to the others? / Sandra Lipsitz Bem
- pt. 2. The new demography of durable inequality. The state of the American dream : race and ethnic socioeconomic inequality in the United States, 1970-90 / Charles Hirschman and C. Matthew Snipp ; Strangers next door : immigrant groups and suburbs in Los Angeles and New York / Richard Alba [and others] ; Jobless poverty : a new form of social dislocation in the inner-city ghetto / William Julius Wilson ; Persisting inequality between metropolitan and nonmetropolitan America : implications for theory and policy / David L. Brown and Marlene A. Lee
- pt. 3. Durable inequality in American institutions. Do historically Black colleges and universities enhance the college attendance of African American youths? / Ronald G. Ehrenberg, Donna S. Rothstein and Robert B. Olsen ; Overcoming race : Army lessons for American society / Charles Moskos and John Sibley Butler ; War's legacy in men's lives / Glen H. Elder, Jr. and Christopher Chan ; Diversity and consensus : what part does religion play? / J. Milton Yinger ; Diversity in American families / Judieth Treas ; Television and diversity : the quantum leap model / James Lowell Gibbs, Jr.
- pt. 4. Afterword. The reduction of intergroup tensions / Robin M. Williams, Jr. with a preface by Peter I. Rose ; Long time passing : race, prejudice, and the reduction of intergroup tensions / Peter I. Rose.